CURRICULUM VITAE. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS: B.A. (UWI); M.Phil. (London University), Ph.D. (UWI); D.D. (West Indies School of Theology)

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE NAME: Alvin O. Thompson DATE OF BIRTH: 24 January 1942 ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS: B.A. (UWI); M.Phil. (London University), Ph.D. (UWI); D.D. (West Indies School of Theology) CURRENT POSITION: Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Philosophy, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill University Teaching Experience Lecturer, University of Guyana, Lecturer, University of the West Indies, (tenure, October 1976) Senior Lecturer, University of the West Indies, Professor, University of the West Indies, 2001 to 2007 Professor Emeritus, University of the West Indies, 2008 to present Courses Taught African History to 1800 African History since 1800 West African History since 1800 Political History of West Africa 1880 to the present Economic History of Africa, History of South Africa History of the West Indies Comparative Study of Slavery World Civilization 1

2 University of the West Indies Administrative Record President, West Indies Group of University Teachers, Cave Hill, Chairman of Committee on Federated Superannuated Scheme for Universities, West Indies Group of University Teachers, Cave Hill, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Arts and General Studies, Cave Hill, Member, University Academic Committee, Member, University Board for Postgraduate Studies, Member, University Council, Member, University Board for Higher Degrees, , Member, University Assessment and Promotions Committee, , Head, Department of History, Cave Hill, Acting Warden/Student Counsellor, Sherlock Hall, Cave Hill, June-December 1982, Chairman, Campus Security and Safety Committee, Cave Hill, Coordinator, Summer School, Cave Hill, Chairman, Student Welfare Committee, Cave Hill, Chairman, Cafeteria Users Committee, Cave Hill, Acting Director, Student Services, June-September 2001 and several other occasions, before and after this date Chairman, Graduate Sub-Committee, Faculty of Humanities and Education, Chairman, Professorial Sub-Committee, Faculty of Humanities and Education, 2005 to 2007 Professional Activities External Examiner, African History Undergraduate Programme, University of Guyana, ; 2001 to present External Examiner, M.A. Programme in History, University of Guyana, 1992 to present Member, Executive Committee, Association of Caribbean Historians, Coordinator, Conference on Caribbean Migration, April 1984 Coordinator, Sixteenth Annual Conference of Association of Caribbean Historians, April 1984 Member, Editorial Board, The Journal of Caribbean History, 1982 to present 2

3 Editor, The Journal of Caribbean History, 1998 to 2011 Member, Barbados Museum Committee on African Museum, 2000 to present Member, Barbados Museum Committee on the Slave Trade and Slavery, 2001 to 2004 Member, Planning Committee, Eight African Diaspora History Trail Conference, held in Barbados from 17 to 19 September Awards, Honours and Distinctions Indian Education Trust Scholarship, Queen s College (High School Scholarship), University of the West Indies Undergraduate Bursary, University of the West Indies Postgraduate Scholarship, Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation Award for Research in Ghana, July-August 1977 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, tenable at the Research Institute for the Study of Man, April- September Received Prizes of Caribbean Thought Award, from the Government of Quintana Roo in Mexico for manuscript entitled Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Caribbean, March Inducted into the Hall of Fame of Chancellor Hall, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, as a Super Lion, April Received Faculty of Humanities and Education Plaque for Outstanding Contribution to the Faculty as Vice Dean in (Award: April 2005). Received the Inaugural Principal s Award for Excellence (for research and publications), University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, Received the Vice Chancellor s Award for University-wide Excellence (for research and publications), University of the West Indies, Received the Life-time Award from the University of the West Indies Press (for publications and administrative contributions to that Press), Received the Oshe Emeka Lifetime Award from the Barbados Commission for Pan African Affairs for contribution to the study of African History and Culture, Received Certificate of Recognition from the Kiwani South Chapter of Barbados for Address and Power Point Presentation on Slavery in the Americas, 22 February Received Honorary Doctor of Divinity Award from the West Indies School of Theology for Outstanding Contribution to that Institution and to the Pentecostal Assemblies of the West Indies, 25 May

4 Delivered the Twenty-First Annual Goveia Memorial Lecture, at the invitation of the Department of History and Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, on the topic Maroon Struggles, April Presented a paper at the invitation of the Netherlands Atlantic World and the Dutch (AWAD) Project on The Legacies of Slavery in Guyana, at an International Conference on Slavery from Within, sponsored by AWAD and the Roosevelt Center, Netherlands, June Delivered a lecture on The Atlantic Slave Trade at the invitation of The Center for African and Native American Research, Arts and Studies, Bermuda, August Presented a paper at the invitation of the Netherlands Atlantic World and the Dutch (AWAD) Project on Some Thoughts on the Dutch Period and Presence in Guyana, at a Conference at the University of Guyana, sponsored by AWAD Project, June Delivered a lecture on The Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Western Africa, as part of the lecture series that the Department of History and Philosophy at UWI, Cave Hill, sponsored under the caption An Outrage to Humanity, dealing with the British slave trade and its abolition, Delivered a lecture on Why were Africans Enslaved?, in St. Vincent, as part of a series that the St. Vincent Government sponsored on the abolition of the British slave trade, Delivered the Twenty-Fifth Annual Goveia Memorial Lecture, at the invitation of the Department of History and Philosophy, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, October 2008, on the topic Lest We Forget: Remembering the Slavery Past to Build a Better Future. Delivered lecture on Testing the Chains: Slave Resistance in Barbados, at a lecture series on slavery in Barbados (sponsored by the Department of History and Philosophy, UWI, Cave Hill, and the Barbados Museum and Historical Society), 14 April Member of UNESCO Teachers Panel on the Fourth Anniversary of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Slave Trade, New York, 23 March Member of UNESCO Department of Public Information /Non-Governmental Organization Panel on the Fourth Anniversary of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Slave Trade, New York, 24 March Invited by United Nations Bookshop, New York, to launch and sign book titled Confronting Slavery on 24 March Delivered at lecture and slide show on 10 February 2011 at Black History Month in Barbados on Slavery in the Americas. Delivered a lecture and slide show in 22 February 2011 to Kiwanas Club in Barbados on Slavery in the Americas. Delivered a lecture titled The Gay and Lesbian Agenda at the 34th Biennial General Conference of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the West Indies, in Trinidad, on 24 May

5 Delivered a lecture titled African Retentions in the Caribbean at the Eight African Diaspora History Trail Conference in Barbados, 17 September 2012 Delivered a lecture titled The Berbice Slave Uprising on the occasion of the 250th Anniversary of that event, at the invitation of the Guyana National Trust, on 19 February Invited by UNESCO to be a Resource Person on the Panel Dealing with Caribbean Heritage Sites, March, Delivered a lecture titled The Role of Enslaved Africans in the Emancipation Process at the 151th Commemoration of Emancipation from Slavery in Sint Maarten, 30 June Delivered a lecture titled Visual Representation of Aspects of Slavery at the Central Bank of Barbados, 24 February Sports Junior Sprint Champion (100 yards) Guyana, 1959 Special School Colours (Queen s College, High School) for excellence in Sports (Athletics and Cricket) 1959 Queen s College 100 yards record, 1960 Victor Ludorum, Queen s College Athletics Championship, 1960 Sports Personality, Queens College, 1960 Member of Queen s College Touring Team to Trinidad (Triangular meet between Trinidad, Barbados and Guyana), July 1960 Sprint champions B division (100 yards) 1960 Sprint champions (100 yards) University of the West Indies, Mona, 1963 Victor Ludorum, University of the West Indies, Mona, 1963 Sprint champion (100 metres), Jamaica, 1963 Member of Jamaica Team, Carreras International Meet 1963 (placed third in 100 metres) London University Sprint Champion (100 metres) 1966 British Universities Sprint Champion (100 metres) 1966 Awarded the Arthur Wint Trophy (in replica) for most significant performance at London University s Athletic Championships, 1966 Awarded London University s Purple (highest sporting award), 1966 Life Member of Barbados Track and Field Association, since 1992 Member of the Constitution Revision Committee, Barbados Track and Field Association, Received Appreciation Award from the Amateur Athletic Association of Barbados in Recognition of Contribution to Athletics in

6 Religion Founder of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship at the University of Guyana, 1969 Trustee of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, Barbados, ca to present Resource Person, International Conference held by Caribbean Conference of Churches, 1977 Member, Executive Committee, Barbados Council of Churches, Member, Human Rights Commission, Barbados Council of Churches, Resource Person, Conference of Caribbean Evangelical Association, 1996 Member, Board of Directors, West Indies School of Theology, Chairman, Board of Directors, West Indies School of Theology, Member, General Executive, Pentecostal Assemblies of the West Indies, 1994 to present Delivered lecture in honour of Professor Winston McGowan, at invitation of Inter-School Christian Fellowship, Guyana, on topic An Examination of the Current Political, Social and Religious Trends and their Impact on the Christian Student Movement in Guyana and the Wider Caribbean, November 2002 Member of the Constitution Review Committee, Pentecostal Assemblies of the West Indies, 2005 to present Received West Indies School of Theology Award for Outstanding Service to that Institution, 2000 Received Recognition Award from the Covenant City Church for recognition to the development of the Charismatic Movement and Deeper Life Ministries in Jamaica, December 2006 Received Pentecostal Assemblies of the West Indies Regional Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education, 2010 Received Pentecostal Assemblies of the West Indies Barbados District Award for Outstanding Christian Service and Contribution to Education, 2011 Received Pentecostal Assemblies of the West Indies Appreciation Award for Eighteenth Years of Service as a Board Member (including sixteen years as Chair of the Board) of the West Indies School of Theology, May 2012 Books Publications 6

7 1. ed. Emancipation I. A Series of Lectures to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Emancipation. Cave Hill, Barbados: Learning Resource Centre, University of the West Indies, v pp. 2. Colonialism and Underdevelopment in Guyana, Bridgetown: Carib Research and Publications, xxii pp. 3. ed. with A. Cobley. The African-Caribbean Connection. Historical and Cultural Perspectives. Cave Hill, Barbados: Department of History & National Cultural Foundation, viii pp. 4. The Haunting Past. Politics, Economics and Race in Caribbean Life. Kingston, New York & London: Ian Randle, M.E. Sharpe & James Currey, xvi pp. 5. Unprofitable Servants. Crown Slaves in Berbice, Guyana, Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, xiv pp. 6. ed. In the Shadow of the Plantation: Caribbean History and Legacy. Kingston: Published by Ian Randle Publishers for the Department of History, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, xxv pp. Reprinted: Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2003; Oxford: James Currey, A Documentary History of Slavery in Berbice, Georgetown: Free Press, xvi pp. 8. Huida a Libertad: Fugitivos y Cimarrones Africanos en el Caribe. Mexico City: Siglo XXI Editores, pp. 9. Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, xi pp. 10. Economic Parasitism: European Rule in West Africa, Cave Hill, Barbados: Department of History and Philosophy, University of the West Indies, xvi pp. 11. Confronting Slavery: Breaking through the Corridors of Silence. Bridgetown: Barbados: Thompson Business Services Inc., xx pp. 12. Editor of Thomas Maginley s ABLAZE: The Pentecostal Assemblies of the West Indies Maracas, Trinidad: Pentecostal Assemblies of the West Indies, xx pp. 13. Visualizing Slavery: Images and Texts. Bridgetown: Barbados: Thompson Business Services Inc. xii pp. 7

8 Booklets 14. Gold Mining in British Guiana from Earliest Times to Georgetown: Ministry of Lands and Mines, pp. 15. Some Problems of the Desertion of Slaves in Guyana, c Cave Hill, Barbados: ISER Occasional Paper No. 4, pp. Republished as Maroons of Guyana. Some Problems of Slave Desertion in Guyana, c Georgetown: Free Press, 1999, iv + 60 pp. 16. Maroon Struggles and the Ideology of Freedom. The Elsa Goveia Memorial Lecture Department of History, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 2006, 19 pp. Articles and book chapters 17. Colonialism as an Economic Phenomenon: The Slave Trade Between West Africa and the West Indies. Guyana Graphic, The Role of Firearms and the Development of Military Techniques in Merina Warfare, c Revue Française d Histoire d Outre-Mer, 61:224 (1974): Aspects of Dutch Administration in Demerara, Essequibo and Berbice. In H. Lutchman et al., eds. Selected Issues in Guyanese Politics. Georgetown: University of Guyana, Vol. 1: Black Africa and the European Partition. African Studies Association of the West Indies, 8 (1976): Race and Colour Prejudices and the Origin of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Caribbean Studies, 3-4 ( ): Reprinted in Emory J. Tolbert, ed. Perspectives on the African Diaspora. Volume One: To rd edition. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2001: Africans in the Caribbean and the Guianas. Tarikh, 5: 4 (1978): The Guyana-Suriname Boundary Dispute: an Historical Appraisal. Boletín de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, 39 (1985): Dutch Society in Guyana in the Eighteenth Century. The Journal of Caribbean History, 20:2 (1986):

9 25. The Societies of Western Africa on the Eve of the Atlantic Slave Trade. In Alvin O. Thompson, ed. Emancipation I. A Series of Lectures to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Emancipation. Cave Hill, Barbados: Learning Resource Centre, University of the West Indies, 1986: Historical Writing on Migration into the Commonwealth Caribbean: A Bibliographical Review of the Period c.1838-c Immigrants and Minorities, 5:2 (1986): African Recaptives under Apprenticeship in the British West Indies, Immigrants and Minorities, 9:2 (1990): Aspects of the Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Western Africa and the Caribbean. In A. Cobley and Alvin O. Thompson, eds. The African-Caribbean Connection. Historical and Cultural Perspectives. Cave Hill, Barbados: Department of History & National Cultural Foundation, 1990: Amerindian European Relations. In Hilary McD. Beckles and Verene Shepherd, eds. Caribbean Slave Society and Economy. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 1991: 13-27; and also in Hilary McD. Beckles and Verene Shepherd, eds. Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2000: The Demerara Maroon War of Emancipation, 3 (1995): Some Pro-Slavers Views of the Meaninglessness of Granting Freedom to Slaves. Emancipation, 3 (1995): Happy - Happy Slaves! : Slavery as a Superior State to Freedom. The Journal of Caribbean History, 29: 2 (1995): Black Caribbeans. In S. Drescher & S. Engerman, ed. A Historical Guide to World Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998: Slave Society during the Dutch Regime. In Winston F. McGowan, James G. Rose, and David A. Granger, eds. Themes in African-Guyanese History. Georgetown: Free Press, 1998: The Berbice Slave Revolt, In Winston F. McGowan, James G. Rose, and David A. Granger, eds. Themes in African-Guyanese History. Georgetown: Free Press, 1998: Reprinted as pamphlet. Georgetown: Free Press, 1999, ii + 33 pp. 36. The Chastisement of the Slave America. The Journal of Caribbean History, 33.1 & 2 (1999): Enslaved Children in Berbice, with Special Reference to the Government Slaves, In Alvin O. Thompson, ed. In the Shadow of the Plantation: Caribbean History 9

10 and Legacy. Kingston: Published by Ian Randle Publishers for the Department of History, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, 2002: Aspects of the Colonial Economic Experience in West Africa. In Richard Goodridge, ed. Caribbean Perspectives on African History & Culture. Cave Hill: Department of History and Philosophy, The University of the West Indies 2004: Gender and Marronage in the Caribbean. The Journal of Caribbean History 39.2 (2005): The Symbolic Legacies of Slavery in Guyana. New West Indian Guide & 4 (2006): Sites of Memory: contributions of enslaved Africans to the built heritage of the Caribbean. UNESCO World Heritage Papers 38. Safeguarding Precious Resources for Island Communities, Paris: UNESCO, 2014: Maroons in Guyana. APFOM et al. Sociétés marronnes des Amériques: Mémoires, partimoines, identitiés et histoire du XVII e au XX e siècles. Matoury, Guyane: Ibis Rouge Editions, 2015: Review article 43. Hugh Tommy Payne, 10 Days in August 1834: 10 Days that Changed the World, Brooklyn, New York, 2001, in The Journal of Caribbean History, 36.2 (2002): Book reviews 44. Richard Price. The Guiana Maroons: A Historical and Bibliographical Introduction. Baltimore, 1976, in Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, 35.4 (1978): Walter Rodney. Kofi Baadu: Out of Africa. Georgetown, 1980, in Caribbean Contact, Aug. 1981: Thomas J. Spinner. A Political and Social History of Guyana, London, 1984, in Caribbean Contact, Aug. 1985: Franklin Knight, ed. General History of the Caribbean. Vol. III. The Slave Societies of the Caribbean. London, 1997, in Journal of Education and Development in the Caribbean, 2.2 (1998):

11 48. Basdeo Mangru. The History of East Indian Resistance on the Guyana Sugar Estates, New York, 1996, in The Journal of Caribbean History, 31.1 & 2 (1997): Maurice St. Pierre. Anatomy of Resistance: Anti-Colonialism in Guyana London, 1999, in New West Indian Guide, (2001): Gabino La Rosa Corzo. Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba: Resistance and Repression. Chapel Hill, 2003, in The Journal of Caribbean History, 38.1 (2004): Stephen G. Rabe. U.S. Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story. Chapel Hill, 2005, in H-Net Book Review, Kenneth M. Bilby. True-Born Maroons. Gainesville, 2005, in Slavery & Abolition, 28.2 (2007): Gilien Matthews. Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement. Baton Rouge, 2006, in New West Indian Guide, 82.3 & 4 (2008): Louis A. Pérez, To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2005, in Journal of Caribbean History, 43.2 (2009): Werner Zips. Nanny s Asafo Warriors: The Jamaican Maroons African Experience. Kingston: Ian Randle, 2011, in New West Indian Guide, (2014): Major Unpublished Papers African Retentions in the Caribbean. Revised version of a paper read at Eight Annual International African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference, held at the Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Conference Centre in Barbados on 17 September Building Cross-Cultural Capacities in LIS: Caribbean and African Reflections. Edited version of the keynote address of delivered on the occasion of the meeting of the International Federation of Library Association s Africa Section Pre-Conference satellite meeting in Barbados, 9 August The Berbice Slave Uprising of 1763: Historical and Present-day Significance. Paper delivered as part of a series of lectures, organized by the Guyana National Trust on 19 February 11

12 2013, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Berbice Slave Uprising in that country. Alvin O. Thompson 2 March